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No. 289,679. Patented Dec. 4, 1883-.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

JOHN MOKEAN, OF NEW YORK, N.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 289,679, dated December 4, 1883.

Application filed September 26, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN MOKEAN, of New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Drawers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, so that any one skilled in the art to which it appertains can make, construct, and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

My invention has for its object to so construct drawers that the stockings may be securely held in place by means of the drawers themselves.

It consists in fastening a flap to the legs of the drawers near their lower end, the design being that the stockings shall be held up by being retained between the leg portion proper of the drawers and the said flap, which flap is drawn down and fastened around and over the stocking. The accompanying drawings are detail views, showing my improvement applied to the leg portion of apair of drawers, Figure 1 showing the flap folded up, and Fig. 2 the same turned down.

The flap A is sewed or otherwise fastened at its upper end to the leg portionB of the draw ers, the upper end of the flap passing preferably entirely around the leg portion. fastened at its upper end only to the drawers, the flap can be folded up, thus exposing the leg portion proper of the drawers, so that the stocking can be drawn up over such portion. It is immaterialwhether the flap extends down below the bottom of the leg proper or not quite to it, or is of the same length. The lower part of the leg portion proper inside the flap is preferably slit up on one side in the ordinary way, to enable the drawers to be pulled on over the feet, and is fastened by buttons,

tape, or in any other customary manner. The flap is also preferably so slit up; but I prefer to slit it on the side opposite to the slit in the leg portion proper, and it is fastened by a buckle and straps or in any other ordinary way.

Being In my preferred mode of arranging these slits the part of the flap that comes over the slit or opening in the inner leg portion proper has, as can be seen, no opening in it.

I do not confine myself to drawers or flaps having these openings. By making the leg portion proper and the fiap large enough to go over the feet, the slitting is rendered unnecessary.

The mode of using my invention is as follows: After the drawers are pulled on the flap is turned up, the inner leg portion proper of the drawers is buttoned or otherwise fastened, the stocking is drawn up over the said inner leg portion proper, and the flap is then pulled down and strapped or otherwise fastened around and over the stocking. The stocking is thus held between the two parts of the drawersthe leg portion proper and the flap. This avoids all garters, strings, and other devices of that kind, which tend to hurt the leg by compressing it too tightly in one place, and is further valuable, as the fasteningapparatus is not something separate from the drawers, but is part of them and cannot be lost.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As a new article of manufacture, drawers or similar garments having a flap at the lower leg portion of the same,which flap is secured to such leg portion above and has suitable fastening devices below, whereby the stocking may be held between such flap portion and the leg portion proper of the drawers, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. As a new article of manufacture, drawers or similar garments having a flap at the lower leg portion of the same, which flap is secured to such leg portion above and has suitable fastening devices below, the flap and leg portion proper being slit on opposite sides, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

JOHN MOKEAN.

Witnesses:

M. O. ROBE, J. H. A. HOMER. 

